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so it's no secret I'm trying to build the best possible pistol grip-only shotgun right now. I'm working off an M500 receiver. Hogue Tamer Pistol Grip and Overmolded forend. Going to use a Mesa Tactical shell holder. In the future, I may convert it to a type of 500 breacher/590 (extended tube, heavy barrel) but not right now.
I'm wanting to mount a laser on this shotgun. I suppose I have two options. Barrel/magazine tube clamp with picatinny rail and pressure switch on forend, or putting one of the Havlin rails on top of the receiver where they screw in and having a pressure switch mounted on the pistol grip.. I want a laser that's going to stand up to the recoil of 2 3/4" buck and slugs indefinitely and I want to be able to mount and adjust it windage wise somewhat closely. Most people throw lasers on their guns and guess to where it's "good enough" just using it as a guide. That would defeat the purpose of the hassle, I'd just use point shooting tactics at that point. I want this as close to the middle of a 15 yard slug hit or 00 buck pattern as possible.
How would you proceed? I know a lot of you view the whole thing as worthless, and compared to a simple, stripped down shoulder weapon I'd have to agree. but this a project gun and I think I can make a pretty nifty weapon out of it if I work at the details and iron out the kinks. The PGO is a very specialized weapon and not my first choice but I have a good amount of practice with it and properly setup, wouldn't feel outgunned with one.
So how and where would you mount the laser? how would you use the pressure switch? How would you sight it in? How do the lasers hold up to recoil? I'm probably going to go with a decent quality green laser, but working out the mount layout will the first task.
I'm wanting to mount a laser on this shotgun. I suppose I have two options. Barrel/magazine tube clamp with picatinny rail and pressure switch on forend, or putting one of the Havlin rails on top of the receiver where they screw in and having a pressure switch mounted on the pistol grip.. I want a laser that's going to stand up to the recoil of 2 3/4" buck and slugs indefinitely and I want to be able to mount and adjust it windage wise somewhat closely. Most people throw lasers on their guns and guess to where it's "good enough" just using it as a guide. That would defeat the purpose of the hassle, I'd just use point shooting tactics at that point. I want this as close to the middle of a 15 yard slug hit or 00 buck pattern as possible.
How would you proceed? I know a lot of you view the whole thing as worthless, and compared to a simple, stripped down shoulder weapon I'd have to agree. but this a project gun and I think I can make a pretty nifty weapon out of it if I work at the details and iron out the kinks. The PGO is a very specialized weapon and not my first choice but I have a good amount of practice with it and properly setup, wouldn't feel outgunned with one.
So how and where would you mount the laser? how would you use the pressure switch? How would you sight it in? How do the lasers hold up to recoil? I'm probably going to go with a decent quality green laser, but working out the mount layout will the first task.